Research Yu Ruwei’s Boowsing The Points Of Famine Relief Policies

Relative to the other direction of the history research, the famine relief policies literature research is still at the beginning stage, not have lots achievement, it should be concern by scholars research. Ming dynasty is the first period prosperity of famine relief policies Literature research, do this research, can make up the deficiency. Yu Ruwei’s Boowsing the Points of Famine Relief Policies is one of the masterpiece in this period, it have complete system, a wealth of historical data, can be provide a good material for the Famine policy History of Ming Dynasty. This paper made a more comprehensive analysis and discussion about this book.This paper consists of three components:The first part, gave a brief introduction to the author, and introduced background of this book from both social and academic. Yu Ruwei living in Jiajing and Wanli period, he is the one with enterprising spirit of the people of insight. Facing the famine on people hurt from the sharp social contradictions, he write a book about famine relief policies problem actively, hope it can be used.The second part, make a detailed introduction to the main content and style. This book total is divided into ten volumes, were compiled famine policy in the data of the Hongwu to the Wanli perrod in Ming Dynasty, it is a master of the Ming Dynasty of famine relief historical. The third part, summarized the codification characteristics, and discussed this book’s historical value from three points:statecraft, the deeply understanding of "disaster" and "shortage ",and save famine administration data. This is the difficulty part in this paper.